Talking-machine-record cabinet.



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APPLICATION FILED JUNE 30. 1916.

Patented Aug. 28, 1917.

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TALKING-MACHINE-RECORD CABINET.

Specication of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug.. 28, 1917..

Application filed J une 30, 1916. Serial No. 106,834.

To all fau/wm t may concern:

Be it known that I, PHILIP A. DETERLING, a 'citizen of the United States, residing at Muncie, in the county of Delaware, State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Talking-Machine-Record Cabinet; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to the art of talking machine record cabinets, and more particularly to an improved cabinet for` disk records, and an object of the invention is to provide a cabinet of this kind having compartments varying in thickness, whereby records of different thicknesses may be received and supported.

Another object of the invention is to con struct said compartments in staggered relation, thereby enabling the disk records to be easily extracted or withdrawn.

A further object of the invention is to eliminate the usual disk record handling device, by arranging said compartments in such aforesaid relation, so that each and every record may be easily grasped and withdrawn.

In practical fields, the details of construction may necessitate alterations falling with` in the scope of what is claimed.

The invention comprises further features and combination of parts, as hereinafter set forth, shown in the drawings and claimed.

In the drawings:-

Figure l is a View in front elevation of the improved cabinet constructed in accordance with the invention.

Fig. 2 is a sectional view on line 22 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a sectional view on line 8 3 of Fig. 2. I

Fig. 4: is a sectional view on hne iof Fig. 2.

Referring more especially to the drawings, 1 designates a cabinet as a whole, which may be of any suitable design, contour or conguration, or may be constructed as a separate cabinet, or as a part of a talking machine cabinet. However, this cabinet comprises a top piece and a bottom piece 3 and a rear piece Ll, to which the top and bottom pieces or sections are secured in any suitable manner, preferably by screws 5.

The back section or piece a is provided with a pair of V-shaped depressions 6. It is to be understood that there may be only one, or more than two of such depressions. The walls (which are inclined rearwardly) are provided with pluralities of recesses 7, which are at spaced relation to each other. Secured in any suitable manner in said recesses 7 and extending forwardly are partitions 8, which are of equal width, but owing to the V-shaped contour of the depressions 6, the forward edges or portions of said partitions, assume positions each beyond the other beginning with the partition at the bottom of each depression 6. The compart` ments 9 are correspondingly arranged. In other words, the partitions 8 and the compartments 9 are in stepped relation, therefore, the talking machine disk records will be correspondingly heldin stepped relation. It is to be observed that some of the compartments 9 are thicker than others, the thicker compartments receiving thick records, whereas the narrower compartments are adapted to receive thin records. The end pieces or sections l0 of the cabinet are secured to the end edges of the back section or piece by means of the screws 11. It is to be noted that the upper face of the bottom piece or section forwardly of the back piece or section is provided with a plurality of grooves l2, forming the bottoms of said compartments, which bottoms are inclined rearwardly, thereby preventing the records from rolling forwardly.

The invention having been set forth, what is claimed as new and useful is:

In a talking disk record cabinet, the comrabbets registering With the rabbets in the back section, the partition lnelnbers being` secured in the rabbets formed in the three sections and providing compartments of vw rions lWidths to receive disk records of va.- rious thicknesses.

In testimony whereof I have signed my named to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

PHILIP A. DETERLING.

I'Vitnesses: f

OLIN BELL, ALBERT L. HUBER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for Afive cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C. 

